Hi all,
My first post and I would be lying if I wasn't here purely to get my question answered...I'm just at my wits end with this problem.
Basically my DQ6 died a week ago after some capacitors literally fell off it. I was gutted and even more so annoyed because the only reason I was moving the board was because I wanted to upgrade to a new video card and needed a bigger case. So my quick $300 upgrade has now cost me nearly double that.
As I wanted to keep costs down I opted to keep my Q6600 CPU and my 4 1GB A-DATA RAM modules. The only board available to me that allowed me to use these components was the previously mentioned EP43-DS3L.
Low an behold I found out that the board appears to have problems with certain RAM configurations as detailed in this thread:
I've tried everything mentioned in that thread and have come to the conclusion that I need to flash my BIOS (in fact as far as I can tell it's my last option). Unfortunately for me my board is revision 1.3 and there are no BIOS updates for it. It won't accept rev 1.0's updates so now I'm stuck in a rut.
I already spent $25 getting it inspected for a hardware fault before I discovered the known problems.
Does anyone know of where I can possibly go from here? I've used Gigabyte Motherboards in my last 5 PC's and just bought my first Gigabyte video card. This is most definitely the first time I've ever had any issues :-(
I can't afford another board (and new RAM as there are no 4 slot boards left!) at this stage and being a Adobe Creative Suite user I need as much RAM as I can get and 2GB is too low. 4GB is bad enough lol!
Your assistance would be greatly appreciated and I thank you in advance.
Regards,
- Matt.
My first post and I would be lying if I wasn't here purely to get my question answered...I'm just at my wits end with this problem.
Basically my DQ6 died a week ago after some capacitors literally fell off it. I was gutted and even more so annoyed because the only reason I was moving the board was because I wanted to upgrade to a new video card and needed a bigger case. So my quick $300 upgrade has now cost me nearly double that.
As I wanted to keep costs down I opted to keep my Q6600 CPU and my 4 1GB A-DATA RAM modules. The only board available to me that allowed me to use these components was the previously mentioned EP43-DS3L.
Low an behold I found out that the board appears to have problems with certain RAM configurations as detailed in this thread:
I've tried everything mentioned in that thread and have come to the conclusion that I need to flash my BIOS (in fact as far as I can tell it's my last option). Unfortunately for me my board is revision 1.3 and there are no BIOS updates for it. It won't accept rev 1.0's updates so now I'm stuck in a rut.
I already spent $25 getting it inspected for a hardware fault before I discovered the known problems.
Does anyone know of where I can possibly go from here? I've used Gigabyte Motherboards in my last 5 PC's and just bought my first Gigabyte video card. This is most definitely the first time I've ever had any issues :-(
I can't afford another board (and new RAM as there are no 4 slot boards left!) at this stage and being a Adobe Creative Suite user I need as much RAM as I can get and 2GB is too low. 4GB is bad enough lol!
Your assistance would be greatly appreciated and I thank you in advance.
Regards,
- Matt.
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